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Xref: sserve comp.unix.sys5.r4:8992 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7944 comp.unix.misc:15375 comp.unix.bsd:15789 comp.sys.powerpc:31018 comp.sys.intel:27782 comp.os.misc:3638 comp.os.linux.misc:32679 comp.os.linux.development:21983 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4625 comp.os.386bsd.development:2953 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!hudson.lm.com!news.galt.com!alex From: alex@nine.org (Alex Wetmore) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Date: 1 Jan 1995 17:05:47 GMT Organization: Galt Technologies, Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3e6ndb$6b2@dagny.galt.com> References: <3d7vel$442@galaxy.ucr.edu> <NEWTNews.5010.788322809.muzaffer@omer1.smixedsignal.com> <3duphu$1ai@tamarack.cs.mtu.edu> <3e2su7$9n4@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <D1oDrt.Ir1@sedlbbs.sedl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nine.ws.cc.cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Scott Burkett (scottb@sedlbbs.sedl.com) wrote: : : So can you run some SVGALib-based Linux program over the cable to another : : Linux machine's X screen? If you cannot, Linux is not capable of running X. : : It is simply pretending to be able to do so... : SVGALib is not X, nor does it make any claims to be so. It is not based : on any specification, other than the author's. Bad comparison. : I can run X apps from a Sun or AIX server on my Linux station with no : problems. I think the point was that with the appropriate software NT can do this as well. It doesn't send Windows apps to be displayed over the network, but no one ever said that it did. It can display X apps over the network just fine, similarily to any other X server/client configuration, if you get the appopriate software (ie, X doesn't come for free out of the box). I think we need alt.nt-vs-unix.wars or something, since crossposting to 15 groups is getting annoying. alex